Is this place still a lemmy project that's run on activitypub, and/or is this ever going to federated with other lemmy servers?

I love the Explainer Mode(TM) people go into for these mind numbingly stupid analogies. There's nothing so stupid that you can't go into Explainer Mode to put yourself in the headspace of feeling like you're making a nuanced point that nobody other than you understand.

I think you're exactly right. And I think that's being done with racism too. There are lots of ways to meme that can't be easily diagnosed as overt racism or sexism, that still serve to reinforce racist and sexist attitudes because they fall in these in between spaces.

I just linked to the playable demo on steam so I'm aware of the demo and aware they are developing it. I get the monthly emails. It has slowed to a snail's crawl and now does not have a timeline or a double barreled development effort on track to be done any time soon. The shifting between engines is the same thing that happened to Duke Nukem Forever when it got stuck in development hell.

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The System Shock 1 remaster which was originally going to be released Decembe 2017.

And, apparently, System Shock 3 may now be dead. It was going to be developed by Warren Spector, who made the original Deus Ex.

It would be nice if there's a federated facebook alternative that isn't brutally awful. I know Friendica, diaspora, hubzilla, and GNUsocial exist but they are all bad.

I would think it it's at least one better than not doing something and just having to sit with it. Do you think it's specific to any kind of moment or situation or anything like that?

edit: had to use bit.ly link instead of the direct youtube link because of the content filter.

What's the weird quirk?

Michael Moore, Glenn Greenwald, and Noam Chomsky (while imperfect) are actually really, really, really good.

Didn't realize that was an unpopular opinion. You're right though imo.

China is not a force for good in the world, and the U.S. can play a positive role in the world by balancing out the influence of China.

edit: the one actual unpopular opinion in the thread. You're welcome!

Mine had my friend stop and pick up tools they found left on the road.

Exactly. The entire concept of an 'echo chamber' is punishingly stupid. The idea that any community can be classified as an echo chamber based entirely on a broad-brush gloss of its ideological disposition/subject matter of focus ignores so many important indicators for what makes for deep engagement with ideas. There are so many important indicators such as:how broad are the range of interests and media shared by the group, how responsive are people who talk to one another, how many ideas are people able to keep in the air at the same time,how much are people talking to each other in a way where they bare the idiosyncracies of their personality vs. how much they're memeing + chasing clout or engaging in shitposting etc. etc.

Part of the common values of a community can be its disposition to openness and engagement with new information and ideas, too. They can function as sources of new information and new interactions with people that pull them up out of their stupor of circlejerking and echoing familiar concepts to each other. There's a whole slate of ideas and metrics you would use to analyze whether people are gaining from, or being made more shallow by any given community and the 'echo chamber' concept is thoroughly inadequate to engaging with the question.

I know this wasn't the intent, but I think it's huge for the project of Activitypub, which is an infrastructure for social media that is not based on Twitter or Facebook, that works across independently owned servers. I think that is huge and really cool.